Jim Geraghty @ NRO:
Argh. What are the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and grassroots Republicans and conservatives, supposed to do, now that Todd Akin has exponentially complicated the effort to defeat Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri, and win the three (or four, if Romney doesn’t win) seats needed to take over the Senate?
All they have is Nebraska, where state senator Deb Fischer holds an 18-point lead over Democrat Bob Kerrey in a seat where incumbent Democrat Ben Nelson is retiring, andNorth Dakota, where Rick Berg is up 9 on in a seat where incumbent Democrat Kent Conrad is retiring . . .
and Montana, where Rep. Denny Rehberg has a small but consistent lead over incumbent Jon Tester . . .
and Wisconsin, where Tommy Thompson has an increasing lead over Tammy Baldwin to fill the Senate seat occupied by the retiring Herb Kohl . . .
. . . but they have to make up the likely loss in Maine, where either a Democrat or a Democratic-leaning independent is likely to replace Sen. Olympia Snowe . . . and they need to keep Sen. Scott Brown in office in Massachusetts, where the latest poll has him . . . er, only up by 5 . . .
. . . and they have to hold Indiana in a presidential year, when Rasmussen has Republican Richard Mourdock slightly ahead . . . and make sure that Sen. Dean Heller keeps his consistent lead in Nevada . . .
That’s okay. Count your chickens now. But while you’re doing that, just remember that most of those potential senators have about a much intelligence as Aiken—and believe the idea (not consistent with medical science, that a woman has a means to contravene a pregnancy in the event she is raped). How stupid. How many of you, that read this blog, believe that too. How does it feel to have such a range of stupidity (certifiable stupidity—not just used as an insult—but verifiable stupidity) representing your interests in the Senate? Probably making laws based of similar misinformation?
It’s easier to count ones like Gauthier than chickens.
Is it just me, or is Lib1 becoming increasingly unhinged the closer we get to November?
Wasn’t it a dem who said that if we station more troops on Guam, it will tip over? Who said that unemployment compensation is a job stimulus? Who said we have to pass the bill to know what is in it? Talk about ignorance.
He’s beginning to sound as pathetic as Reid and Pelosi. Now if we are going to talk about stupidity, how about those islands tipping over because of too many people or worrying about someone up north stripping moose. Yes there is rampant stupidity among the Socialist Progressives, but their stupidity is about to catch up with them in a few weeks.
We are liable to see a lot of unhinged and dislocated Progressive Socialists in the near future. Perhaps we should designate special ambulances and padded cells for the unhinged Libs who won’t be able to face reality after the bloodletting.
We’ll see what happens here in Indiana. Thanks to a load of outside money, our long-standing option of voting for an elder Indiana statesman has now been replaced with the option of voting for a republican wingnut. I’ve always tended to split my ticket and have always for republican Dick Lugar. This year I’ll be voting a straight democratic ticket.
@Greg:
Greg, you are delusional if you think that Democrat candidates don’t also rely on outside money to fund their campaigns..
Ditto: You make an excellent point; however, outside money for Libs is a different deal. They have the colors of the Socialist Revolution to carry forth, so their cause is pious and they allow themselves to be sanctimonious (to the point of being devious) about outside money, even money from foreign sources.
@Ditto, #7:
Would you care to make a comparison of the amounts spent, and where the money came from? This, from Outside Spending May Oust Indiana Statesman:
Total: $4.4 million
In Support Of Mourdock: $2.8 million
In Support Of Lugar: $1.6 million
By Group:
In Support Of Mourdock:
Club for Growth Action: $1,458,627
NRA Political Victory Fund: $491,066
Freedomworks For America: $437,184
Club for Growth: $194,857
USA SuperPAC: $97,492
Citizens United Political Victory Fund: $96,300
Majority PAC: $23,500
Club for Growth PAC: $21,737
Our Country Deserves Better PAC – TeaPartyExpress.org: $8,972
In Support Of Lugar:
American Action Network: $645,153
Indiana Values SuperPAC: $496,694
Hoosiers for Jobs: $214,590
YG Network: $208,628
Every major source contributing money to the Richard Mourdock effort was from out of state. Big money from out of state has removed from our ballot the name of a genuine Indiana statesman, and replaced it with a Koch brothers favorite.
@Greg:
Greg, I live in Indiana. I never listened to, or watched, any political ads, from either candidate. I know about Mourdock from research on him. I know of Lugar from his record. There is no way I would have voted for Lugar. I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only conservative in Indiana that feels that way.
Regardless of who went up against him, Lugar was a dead man, as far as politics in Indiana were concerned.
@Greg: Maybe other folks in this country are concerned with their country instead of the spoils a Senator who didn’t even have a home in IN brings home. It is their tax money that ear marks bring home. They have a right to support a candidate who has the country’s best interest at heart instead of his own!
@Greg:
Greg: (to paraphrase) “It’s not fair! Boo-hoo! Just for that I’m voting straight Democrat!”
So what? We can both cherry pick races from around the nation and whine about who’s getting more support from outside sources (such as union money) or ‘what”Super-PAC’ is spending ‘where’. When it benefits a candidate you support, I’m sure you have no problem with it.
The reason there is growing support for fiscal conservative candidates, is because both your favored Democrat and Establishment Republican Progressives have refused to spend responsibly and the voters are fed-up with it. (They are also getting fed-up with the out of control expansion and intrusiveness of government).
Be honest Greg, you were going to vote straight Democrat anyway, and you planned to from the start. You’re just stating a convenient excuse for doing so. What you should have done, is vote for more moderate, fiscally responsible Democrats. But no, you’re more concerned with the furthering of a radical progressive agenda which is leading the nation headlong into financial disaster.
@Ditto:
It isn’t a matter of cherry picking to me. It’s a report of what happened in my own home state.
I have voted for Dick Lugar in every Indiana senatorial election since 1976. He was the only remaining republican that I would have voted for this year.
@Greg:
Well, how about that. It’s certainly not all that surprising that you supported a progressive RINO. Lugar has been continually touted by Democrats as a favorite Republican, representing a state that he hasn’t resided in since 1977.
From the Constitution:
Lugar was a Washington DC establishment, globalist Republican and only returned to his state when it was time to get re-elected. He is a perfect example of the out-of-touch Washington elite crowd, and why there should be term limits.
I tend to support people who still have some grasp of how a two-party political system is supposed to work, and who understand that neither side is supposed to get everything their own way. When reasonable people like Dick Lugar were in the majority in our legislative bodies, things actually did work. The fact that there were two sides holding opposing views wasn’t a fatal flaw.
@Greg:
Ah! So if that’s true, then we can surely expect that you will not be voting again for Obama.